Houston and Texas Central Railway Co. $1,000 Uncanceled Gold Bond signed by Will for Sale

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Houston and Texas Central Railway Co. $1,000 Uncanceled Gold Bond signed by Will For Sale

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Houston and Texas Central Railway Co. $1,000 Uncanceled Gold Bond signed by Will:
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$1,000 7% Gold Uncanceled Bond. Signed at front by William Earle Dodge Sr. (September 4, 1805 \" February 9, 1883) was a New York businessman, referred to as one of the \"Merchant Princes\" of Wall Street in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Dodge saw slavery as an evil to be peaceably removed, but not to be interfered with where it existed. He was a Native American rights activist and served as the president of the National Temperance Society from 1865 to 1883. Dodge represented New York\'s 8th congressional district in the United States Congress for a portion of the 39th United States Congress in 1866-1867 and was a founding member of the Young Men\'s Christian Association (YMCA). His son, Charles Cleveland Dodge, was one of the youngest brigadier generals in the Union Army during the Civil War at the age of twenty-one. In 1840 work began on a railroad from Harrisburg to the Brazos River that was later chartered as the Harrisburg Rail Road and Trading Company. Although this company subsequently failed, and its charter lapsed, this was the first attempt to build a railroad over a route that later became a part of the Southern Pacific. The decade of the 1850s, however, saw the construction of five railroads that were later acquired by the Southern Pacific. Work on the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway began in 1851, and by late 1860 the line was open from Harrisburg to Alleyton. The BBB&C was not only the first railroad to operate in Texas, but also the first component of the Southern Pacific to begin operating. It is also generally considered to have been the second railroad west of the Mississippi River. By early 1861 the Houston and Texas Central (originally the Galveston and Red River Railway Company) was operating between Houston and Millican, while the Texas and New Orleans (originally the Sabine and Galveston Bay Railroad and Lumber Company) was completed between Houston and Orange. The Washington County Rail Road between Hempstead an Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.